Environmental

NOAA, EPA Disapprove Oregon’s Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Program

Agencies optimistic that state will make progress in addressing forest practices

NOAA and EPA are working with Oregon to improve their coastal nonpoint program to protect streams like these that are important to endangered salmon. (Credit: NOAA)NOAA and EPA are working with Oregon to improve their coastal nonpoint program to protect streams like these that are important to endangered salmon. (Credit: NOAA)

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 30, 2015.  NOAA and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have disapproved the state of Oregon’s coastal nonpoint pollution control program because it does not sufficiently protect salmon streams and landslide-prone areas from logging impacts or reduce…

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